View report page

35
ISOLATION OF CASES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
Soon after the commencement of the small pox epidemic, a letter was
received from the Local Government Board, requesting to know what
steps had been taken by the Vestry to provide accommodation for nonpauper
cases of infectious disease, as the hospitals of the Metropolitan
Asylums Board were full. The matter was discussed at a special meeting
of the Sanitary Committee, a disused building was selected for the
purpose of being converted into an hospital, and arrangements were about
to be made for securing the site, when Mr. Collins brought intelligence
that the Asylums Board had several new hospitals nearly completed, and
that they would shortly have an abundance of room. Consideration of
the matter was therefore adjourned. On the 27th February, the following
communication was received from the clerk of the Metropolitan
Asylums District Board:—
THE METROPOLITAN ASYLUM DISTRICT,
37, Norfolk Street, Strand, London, W.C.,
26th February, 1877-
Dear Sir,—I am directed by the managers of the Metropolitan Asylum District to
transmit to you the enclosed copy of a Report of the Committee for General Purposes,
respecting the provision for the isolation and treatment of epidemic infectious disease in
the Metropolis, which was adopted by the managers at their meeting on the 24th inst.,
and I atn to state that the managers will be pleased to be favoured with your opinion
thereon.
I am, Dear Sir, yours faithfully,
W. F. JEBB,
To G. P. Bate, Esq., M.D., Clerk.
Medical Officer of Health for
St. Matthew, Bethnal Green.
METROPOLITAN ASYLUM DISTRICT.
Extract from, a Report of the Committee for General Purposes, submitted to the Managers
at their Meeting on Saturday, the 24th February, 1877.
In accordance with the further resolution of the last Board Meeting, directing that the
communication from the Vestry of Newington, relative to the provision of hospital
accommodation for small pox patients not being paupers, together with all other
communications on the same subject, should be referred to this Committee for consideration
and report as to whether any or what action in reference thereto is desirable,
your Committee beg to report that they have given considerable attention to this
important subject.
The experience of the small pox epidemic of 1871, and of that now existing, shows that
a large proportion of the patients received into the Hospitals of the Managers belong to